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1660 episodes transcribedFormer president Donald Trump is the frontrunner in the Republican presidential primary. And with a healthy lead in the polls, he's skipping the first...
Puerto Rico has seen a string of natural disasters in the past few years – hurricanes, earthquakes, floods, and landslides. When COVID-19 hit in 2020,...
The last few elections have brought a wave of self-styled progressive prosecutors into office. They've won elections by campaigning on issues like bai...
A growing body of research makes it clear that noise pollution can have severely harmful impacts on our health. It has been tied to heart disease and...
The Biden administration is under intense political pressure from Republicans over immigration, who accuse the president of being too lenient toward m...
The CDC says that a new omicron variant called EG.5 is causing a summer wave of COVID cases.Yet, COVID is nowhere near the threat that it was more tha...
A grand jury in Georgia has indicted Donald Trump for his role in failed efforts to overturn the state's 2020 presidential election results, implicati...
It's been two years since the Taliban entered Kabul, throwing the final days of the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan into chaos. Crowds of people desp...
For the past few months, President Biden's top foreign policy advisors have been working as intermediaries between Saudi Arabia and Israel. Eventually...
As the battle over book bans in schools and libraries continues to play out in various states across the U.S., the toll it's taking on librarians is c...
Hawaii may be a tourist attraction to many Americans, but for over a million people, it's their home. And like any state in the US, it is not immune t...
The number of overdoses from fentanyl continues to soar, as do concerns from those in Washington. Immigration authorities say illicit fentanyl is flow...
In past wars, updates have trickled out slowly — often tightly controlled by the militaries involved. In the war in Ukraine, every day is a firehose o...
One Republican senator from Alabama is single-handedly holding up over 300 senior-level military promotions and appointments. Senator Tommy Tuberville...
July was almost certainly the hottest month, globally, on record. It was also a month in which many lives were upended by weather related-disasters —...
For years, Russell Moore was one of the top officials in the Southern Baptist Convention. But after he criticized Donald Trump, Moore found himself os...
Former President Donald Trump pleaded not guilty to criminal charges related to efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election. And a member of...
The unions representing actors and writers in Hollywood have some differences in what they want from the big film studios. But one thing they agree on...
Former President Donald Trump was indicted Tuesday by a federal grand jury on four counts related to the efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 p...
Two years ago, Mohamed Bazoum was elected as president in Niger's first peaceful democratic transfer of power. He enjoyed the backing of Western gover...
